ONS UPRN Directory: Great Britain Address to Geography Linkage (January 2022)

Great Britain's address database linking each Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) to current administrative, electoral, health, and statistical geographies as of January 2022. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography produces this directory every six weeks to complement the Ordnance Survey AddressBase product. The file size is 511 MB and contains intellectual property from Royal Mail, Gridlink, Ordnance Survey, and ONS.

Use Cases

• Enrich address data with administrative geography codes based on the UPRN linkage.
• Analyze property distribution across electoral or health boundaries based on the geocoding.
• Support statistical analysis by linking address records to standard geographic hierarchies mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Links every GB address to multiple current statutory geographies, providing broad administrative coverage.
• Produced by the authoritative ONS Geography and updated on a regular six-week cycle.
• Designed to complement the detailed Ordnance Survey AddressBase product.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.
• Data may reflect temporal bias as the snapshot is from January 2022.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography, using AddressBase® Epoch 89.

Collection Method

Produced by ONS Geography to provide geographic services.

Time Range

Snapshot as of January 2022.

Freshness

Updated every six weeks; snapshot from January 2022.

Geography

Great Britain.